Radium is a Mac application offering a comprehensive buffet of internet radio stations based on location, category, or direct search. While earlier releases resided in the menu bar, version 3 adopts a small on-screen window where the action takes place; clicking the menu bar now hides the UI instead.

Our Thursday edition of Apple Daily takes a look at how Apple Watch 2 might become more independent and FaceTime enabled, while a research firm plays the guessing game with sales estimates, and beta users gain access to the Radio portion of Apple Music — sort of.

Apple Music is set to bring the biggest changes to digital music since the iTunes Music Store by not only providing a place to listen to music, but to also explore deep cuts, interact with your favorite artists, and discover new ones. So whether you're a fan of Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar, or Florence + The Machine, here are eight reasons why you rush to sign up on June 30...

When Apple released iTunes 12 alongside OS X Yosemite, the update was a major breakthrough with changes to functionality that users had been accustomed to for many years. While many of those changes were for the better, they can take some getting used to. Here, we take a close look at everything new in iTunes 12 and answer users' most-asked questions.

To its great credit, Pandora refuses to go gentle into that good night despite the recent competition from iTunes Radio (not to mention other competitors such as Google Play Music). To that end, the venerable streaming music site updated its iOS app today to support using Pandora stations as alarm clocks rather than the default tones you get with the iPhone.

It's a good year to be a music lover. Earlier this year Apple gave us iTunes Radio as a worthy alternative to popular services like Pandora and Spotify, and today Google finally released its native Google Play Music app for iOS. Whereas Apple's design for iTunes Radio seems to mimic Pandora, Google Play takes a tack that's more reminiscent of Spotify, but with the welcome option to add all the music files from your computer and play them in the Cloud.

From its days as a pedestrian tab in Music to its clunky, crashy standalone app, Apple has never given podcasts the attention they deserve. A number of top-notch developers have expertly picked up Apple's slack, so when we heard that the makers of the popular RSS reader Feed Wrangler had taken a crack at it, we naturally couldn't wait to check it out. There are essentially three main things that make up a decent podcast app: clean navigation, easy discovery, and seamless listening. Pod Wrangler dutifully checks off each of these boxes, with an utterly simple approach that gives it a leg up on its competitors.

Radio isn’t dead yet, but it has evolved to be something that you listen to on your own terms, picking and choosing programs to check out at your convenience. AGOGO gets this, bringing you personalized audio programming with a slick interface and a number of curated channels. It pulls in the latest radio and newswire archives, podcasts, your local and online music collections, and other audio selections across many different areas, establishing itself as an excellent one-stop shop for your mobile listening needs.

Eton's FRX3 is a jack of all trades. It's a radio, with AM, FM, and NOAA weather bands. It's an LED flashlight. It's an alarm clock. It's a portable speaker. You can power it with three AAA cells, the hand crank, the built-in solar panel, or by plugging it into a USB port or AC adapter (a cable is included, but the AC adapter is not). Oh, and the internal rechargeable battery can charge your iPhone too.

If Jony Ive designed a Bluetooth speaker, it might look like this. Then again, if Jony Ive designed a soup can, it might look like this. The HiddenRadio blends into its surroundings, with no visible buttons or controls. You twist it on its sturdy base to reveal the speaker, and control the volume the same way: more speaker showing means louder music, and you just twist it all the way closed to turn it off. It connects via Bluetooth 2.1 or a hidden aux-in jack, and we got the best results leaving the audio device at around 80 percent volume, and then fine-adjusting by twisting the HiddenRadio.